Motivational Quotes

Youth

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

- Decter, Midge

Best Quotes about Youth

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

16.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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Decter, Midge

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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita